Is it possible to rip audio CDs as MP3s rather than FLAC?I prefer to save the space on the core, plus would like to copy some of the files to a portable media player.

From the admin site, under basic info -> installation, there is an option down the bottom that allows selection of the ripping format for CDs. It allows for selection of 'ogg, flac, or wav'. Interestingly enough, it is currently set to ogg, yet audio CDs are still ripped as FLAC. In anycase, I'd still prefer to use MP3 which isn't even listed there.

Currently it's hardcoded to flac. MP3 was left out because of patent issues we wanted to avoid. But things changed recently as it seems that the devil isn't as black as we thought. At least while for the free distribution of the product.

In theory, it would be just replacing "flac" in ripDiskWrapper.sh with a variable and put "lame", "flac", "oggenc" in it. In practice, it may be a little harder since that script is a little bit uglyer than it should be.

The format selection option was disabled a little bit before I wrote support for the formats. ID3 tags will be written by another component. The files have database associated data and that component will use what's in the database to write the ID3 tags. Don't ask why.

In SVN, the option is back, under Wizard -> Basic Info -> Installation. 2.0.0.32 doesn't have it though. But all is not lost. In the device tree, select CORE -> DCERouter -> Media Plug-in. On the corresponding page, right at the bottom, you have a "Device Data" entry called "Type". You can write "flac", "wav", "ogg" or "mp3" in there to change the ripping format. Please note that you'll have to install "lame" by yourself if you choose "mp3".